Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-11-26
MILEAGE MONEY.
The House Clerks Revising the Mile
age Accounts of the Representa-
tiyeS Under The New Law.
The Arizona Representative Receives
Sixteen Hundred Dollars Travelling
XpenSes-Crain'S bundle.
The Secretary of the Treasury Working on
His Annual Report at His House-A
Practical Paper Expected,
A SORT OF A GIFT FUND.

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Special to the Gazette.
/ WASHINGTON, Nov. rs The clerks in
the Office of the Sergesnt-at-Arms OF the
House are busiiy engaged in revising the
mileage accounts of the representatives IN
the next Congress. Under the new law
each is entitled to mileage to and from
Washington st the rate of 20 cents mile
In the case Of Mr.. NJ. A. Saith, the pew
delegate from Ariz0ns, the sum of $1,000
will be paid to reimburse him
for his expenses from Tomb
stone and back again. Mr..
Herman Of Oregon, who comes next on
the list, will be paid $3.50. The two San
Francisco members, Messrs. LorroW and
Felton,, VINO will travel 6346 miles each,
will receive SI26O Mr.. Grain of Texas,
who lives 1000 miles from Washington,
will De allowed $500. Mr.. Milliken of
Maine, whose home is 703 miles east of
Washington, will receive S2SI, and Mr..
Dougherty of Florida S456 TIE New
York city members will receive S92 each,
enough to pay their travelling expenses
half dozen times or more. Major
Farqushsr OF Buffalo exceeds this sum
by $50. The smallest milesge credit will
d.
will succeed Mr.. Barbour of that place
Alexandria is eight miles distant from
Washington. According to the sergeant
at arms's computation Mr.. Lee Will re-
ceive the sum Of So 20. Mr.. Holman will
draw the respectable sum of 1854, Mr..
Carlisle 1920, and Mr.. Randall, who lives
in Washington, but who represents &
Philadelphia district. S55.
SECRETARY FAIRCHII,D'S REPORT
WAsHIN GTON, Nov. 25.-Secretary of
the Treasury Fairchild has been avoiding
Interruptions to which he would be ex-
posed at his Office and has for several
days past been working on his annual re-
port at his house. The report will be
ready some time before the House meets
and the President will have an early
synopsis Of it for Incorporation into his
message. l. is understood that it will
not be so long as the last report OF Secre-
tary Manning and that it will differ
in some respects from it. Mr..
FAirchild will probably not devote
SO much space to silver as his
predecessor, but he will, it is understood,
stand upon about the same ground that
Mr.. Manning occupied upon the question
of enforced coinage of the silver dollar.
Upon the tariff question he will endeavor
TO BE PLAIN AND PRAC TICAL.
He cannot be weak or uncertain if he
writes as he talks, and While he will cor
daily advocate strongly the reduction of
customs revenues he will also give rea-
sons that have been forced upon him by
experience for amendments of the Gus
toms laws that will tighten the burden
of inspectors, appraisers and the courts
at the same time that they will remove
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chants and to tourists. While Mr.. Man
ming was Secretary it was generally IN
derstood, correctly or not, that parts Of
his annual reports which he signed, and
particularly those parts which dealt
minutely with the silver and tariff ques-
tions, were the work of colaoor-
ers possessed CT special knowl-
edge. Mr.. Fairchild's report will
be his own in every sense. He has
devoted himself closely to the study of
financial questions in the history Of the
country and has become acquainted by
contact with service in the divisions and
with the machinery of the department
and the ends for which the department
was created, and his suggestions are
therefore bound to be Characteristic of q
straight forward, earnest public officer.
INDIA IN WHEAT COMPETITION.
Special 20 the Gazette.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 25 The forthcom-
ing crop report from the Department of
Agriculture will contain an interesting
article from J. r. Dodge, the statistician
of the Department, on "India in Wheat
Competition" that will go far toward
dispelling the growing fear that compe-
tition from India would seriously affect
the wheat growers OF the Uaited States
in the markets of Europe. Mr.. Dodge
points out the significant facts that while
a large increase in the Wheat-groWing
area Of India is impossible, the annual
home consumption Of wheat is constantly
increasing, and that while it
is true that with improved methods
of agriculture the present acreage
will become more productive, the increas-
ing prosperity Of the people will bring
about corresponding increase in wheat
consumption. Mr.. Dodge thinks that
much of the increase in the expectation
of wheat from India which followed the
opening up of railroads into the interior
was due to the shipping of the sccumu-
lated surplus that had been stored up for
use in the famine years. The conclusion
to be drawn from Mr.. Dodge's article is
hat the export for 1887 of about 42,000,-
600 bushels is very Dear the maximum
that may be expected from India.
TEXAS PENSIONS.
WASHINGTON, Nov. % Toe following
Texas pensions were issued to-day: Mex
lean war, VIM. Clough, Wsllesyille; Seth
B. Settle, Corsicaus; William Clark, St.
Msrys; Malcolm J. Mcdonald, Black
wood; Sam uel a. Cain, Tulip; Joseph
NJ Childress, Jasper; william j. Stuart,
Macy; John E. Robertson, Desdemona.